Clint Huffman is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) who has been with Microsoft for over 10 years. This blog documents the challenges he faces week to week in hopes that these experiences will help others.

Year: 2014

Yay! After over a year in development, my book, the “Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide”, is available for pre-order! $37.46 at http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780124167018&_requestid=465338 $45.42 (Prime discount) at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0124167012/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=12JDCG3UP69SD&coliid=I2TOVTYHI6HDHC I certainly don’t know everything about Windows performance analysis (no one ever will), so *many* of my friends and colleagues are named in the book as people who…

I highly encourage my customers to run a “black box” performance counter data collector set on their Windows Servers. The purpose of it is to continuously collect a detailed amount of data about the system in a circular file buffer of adjustable size so what if/when the system has a performance problem, we have roughly…